Welcome from the Assistant Dean for MCG Educational Simulation
Our innovative and effective simulations ensure a physically and psychologically safe environment for medical students and residents throughout their training, promoting professional identity as a physician, providing valid and reliable formative assessment feedback, and facilitating crucial one-on-one debriefing with expert clinicians to hone their clinical reasoning skills. We provide these standardized, replicable simulations at each of our statewide clinical campuses.
We disseminate our research at international conferences and through regular publication in peer reviewed journals. But our highest honor is when other simulation centers across the world to ask me how we do what we do so well.
I am truly thankful to work with the dedicated, innovative, and collaborative faculty and staff at the Medical College of Georgia. And I look forward to continuing to serve the MCG community in the design, development, facilitation, debriefing, and assessment of simulations to educate competent and compassionate physicians.
A.J. Kleinheksel, PhD, MEd, CHSE-A, FSSH
The Clerkship and Enrichment phases of the MCG 3+ curriculum each include a simulation-based course (Patient-Centered Learning or PCL) that is run synchronously at each of our statewide clinical campuses. We also work with our regional faculty to support their resident training through procedural skills simulated by the equipment and supplies we provide.
The Association of American Medical Colleges has identified 13 Core Entrustable Professional Activities (Core EPAs) that each graduating medical student must master before successfully transitioning into residency. MCG Educational Simulation has developed and validated a novel simulation-based assessment framework for the Core EPAs, which are assessed in every phase of the curriculum. Our summative graduation requirement (the Advanced Clerkship Clinical Progression Assessment) has proven to be both a valid and reliable assessment of residency readiness.
State-of-the-art simulation technology and equipment are an important component to medical education, but it is the skillful application of the pedagogy that truly sets MCG Educational Simulation apart. To ensure that simulation activities consistently apply established and emerging best practices, we provide all MCG faculty across the state with continuing, tailored facilitator development opportunities through asynchronous modules, live courses, and hands on workshops.
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